Parents have been urged to sign-up for a free sugar app that examines the sugar content of more than 75,000 common food and drink products. The Change4Life Sugar Smart app is designed to show quickly and easily how much total sugar is in the things you’re buying, eating and drinking, to help you spot it more […]
West Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has confirmed plans to stop prescribing gluten-free food for all adults from 1 January 2016 but will continue to prescribe bread, pasta, flour and pastry mixes following the National Prescribing Guidelines for children. Dr Ian Mack, chairman of West Norfolk CCG and a GP in Watlington, said: “West Norfolk CCG […]
Britain’s biggest beer festival organiser, CAMRA, is refusing to sell ales from breweries who are unable to provide a full ingredients list for their ales, as they want to list ingredients in a new move to help drinkers with food allergies or intolerances. It’s no secret that most beers contain gluten, which leaves over 600,000 Britons […]
Antony Worrall Thompson presented the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards silver salver of excellence to Sarah Ormond Smith of the Canterbury restaurant, Oscar & Bentleys at a presentation ceremony at Food Matters Live yesterday. The awards are sponsored by Sodexo. Oscar & Bentleys, second time winner of the Restaurant category at the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards, […]
Gluten Free Baking and Living are raising funds on Indiegogo to develop their own range of gluten free flour blends – a gluten free plain flour blend, brown bread blend, and Italian stoneground blend, a first for the free from market. Founded by Ian and Deborah Thackeray, the company was born in 2012 when Ian […]
Gluten-free food brand, Delicious Alchemy, has won two major awards for its chocolate brownie mix – a Quality Food Award and a Good Choice! Quality Food Award. Delicious Alchemy’s gluten and dairy-free chocolate brownie mix won in the home baking category of the mainstream Quality Food Awards, beating off stiff competition from other well-known mainstream […]
Hard Rock Cafe, home of the UK’s original American menu has achieved gluten-free (GF) accreditation from Coeliac UK for its special Gluten-Free Menu, for fans requiring a gluten-free diet. After over a year of research and testing gluten-free products, Hard Rock has created a mouth watering Gluten-Free Menu that now offers some of its most […]
Delicious Alchemy launches UK’s first gluten and dairy free Christmas cake mix. Gluten-free food brand, Delicious Alchemy, has launched the UK’s first gluten and dairy free Christmas cake mix, so people with coeliac disease, dairy intolerances and those following a free-from diet don’t have to miss out this festive season. The new mix is packed […]
Many people choose to eliminate gluten from their diet as gluten-free foods are often perceived as healthy, yet many of the mass-market products contain unpalatable industrial ingredients. However, Coeliac UK claim there is no evidence that they pose a health risk to consumers. You may have seen an article published in the Sunday Times on […]
Living a gluten-free life can be challenging, especially in a world where gluten-soaked foods are just about everywhere. At GlutenfreeSingles, you are not alone! Before her coeliac disease diagnosis, Pia Strobel never imagined that she could possibly be afraid of finding breadcrumbs on the counter, that she would be so afraid of putting a knife […]